[Unpaid - Taken] Would someone please make a better contour/atlassy version of my Rhothar world?

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Would someone please make a better contour/atlassy version of my Rhothar world?

Ok, well, this thread either proves how lazy or unskilled I am. Both scenarios are probably correct.

Anyway, I'm currently writing a novel based on the world on this WIP. Now, I want to make a version of the map (atached to this post at bottom) that looks more atlas-like or perhaps simply has better (and more varied) contours. I've tried tutorials from this forum, but I keep hitting issues that no one can/will help me with... -.- SO, I've decided that getting someone to do it for me (gees that sounds so shallow for some reason).

Here it is. I also added attached a rough tectonic map (on the old map, sadly) to give you an idea of how many features were formed, what can and can't be changed and what certain featured would be (eg. the ridges in many of the seas are rifts).

Two notes:

The snaking ridge in the west of the bottom central ocean is an extinct rift.

Note the tiny round island just west of the southern-most paninsualla of the large, eastern continent. It doesn't appear on the black and white map, but it's very important to the story, so please include it. It's actually a huge spire-type-deal encircled by a really deep trench. The very top it the highest point on the planet and houses the [spoilers] and overlooks a large portion of the planet. There used to be five more, but they were all destroyed.

Oh, and before I forget, the light blue areas of sea are shallow see, not nessicarily continental shelves. They are around the majour continents, but not around the islands connecting the north and east continents or the east and south-east-central continents. The light blue blob in the south-center is a continental shelve - that of a sunken microcontinent.